One of the first questions my doctor asked me was “What kind of hairspray did you use in the 80s? My initial thought was – is this guy serious? I have been dealing with a cancer diagnosis, I just had a double mastectomy and he’s asking me about hairspray from over 30 years ago!? The point he went on to make was that all the chemicals I was exposed to over my lifetime had been building up in my body and ultimately reached a tipping point and I got breast cancer.
Surviving breast cancer is a courageous journey that often involves rigorous treatments, emotional challenges, and significant lifestyle adjustments. As survivors emerge from the intensity of medical interventions, it becomes crucial to shift focus towards holistic well-being. Often during treatment, emotions are pushed aside to focus solely on getting through it. Now, post-treatment, those emotions come boiling to the surface.
What is the Good Stuff? It’s something to look forward to. It’s a memory that lights you up and makes you smile. Something to bring some spark to the drudgery of daily routine. Here, Jennifer Baker shares a meditation practice, a skill to help bring in the ‘Good Stuff' and change the state of our nervous system.
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Is it possible to tune your brain like a musical instrument? As technology reaches deeper into the mind–body connection, devices like NeuroNova’s “Dopamine Seat” promise a new kind of balance — one rooted in vibration and neuroscience. The chair claims to help regulate focus, calm, and emotional energy through harmonic stimulation without drugs or invasive tools. WEforum takes a closer look at the research, origins, and real-world potential behind this new approach to brain–body wellness.
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Weight-loss medications have moved rapidly from the margins of medicine into everyday conversation. Once reserved primarily for diabetes management, GLP-1 medications are now reshaping how we talk about health, bodies, and behavior. Their benefits are real and well-documented, but so are the questions they raise. As use expands, it is worth pausing to look carefully at what these medications do well, where their limitations lie, and what science has yet to fully understand